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TV/radio: 5 p.m., Tuesday, ESPN, AM 560 WIND Line: Marshall by 9 1/2. Records: Marshall (12-1), Northern Illinois (11-2). Last meeting: Marshall won 37-15 on Oct. 6, 2001, in DeKalb. On the offensive: Marshall ranks sixth in the country in rushing offense (275.6 yards per game) and NIU is 13th at 252.9. NIU is first in the MAC and ninth in the nation in third-down efficiency (48.6 percent). Marshall quarterback Rakeem Cato passed for 3,622 yards and 37 touchdowns. Getting defensive: NIU has out-scored its opponents 129-62 in the second half during its seven-game winning streak. The Huskies have won 44 of their last 45 games when giving up 24 points or less. Six NIU defenders...

BOCA RATON, Fla. — When it comes to winning conference championships and advancing to bowl games, Northern Illinois has had a pretty successful pattern going.
Winning those bowl games, however, has become problematic.
The Huskies were shredded 52-23...

Marshall University's historic football showdown with Purdue has been rescheduled to Sept. 6, a Sunday. Originally scheduled one day earlier, the game has been rescheduled by Conference USA for national television. Purdue's visit to Marshall will mark the...

Austin Grebe kicked a 24-yard field goal with one minute 27 seconds left, and Navy beat San Diego State, 17-16, in the sloppy Poinsettia Bowl on Tuesday night in San Diego.
The Aztecs' Donny Hageman was wide right on a 34-yard field goal attempt with...

Rivalry weekend lived up to the hype as the season wraps up.
Here are 10 things we learned from this college football weekend.
1. Six teams remain in the hunt for Playoff spots. Mississippi’s win over Mississippi State in the Egg Bowl...

Conference races are beginning to clear up after a holiday weekend. Here is a quick look at which teams are set for championship weekend and which teams still have some work ahead of them:
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Memphis (8-3, 6-1), UCF...

The SEC should be ready to go after a weekend full of cupcakes is just one thing to come from this college football weekend.
Here are 10 things we learned:
1. Just a ho-hum Saturday. After weeks of drama amid the top teams in the College...

Separation Saturday helped bring the College Football Playoff picture into sharper focus.Alabama, Oregon, TCU, Arizona State and Ohio State made big statements with crucial wins, while Auburn, Kansas State, Michigan State and Notre Dame suffered losses...

Florida State may be the only undefeated Power 5 team left in the country, but that doesn’t mean that the College Football Playoff selection committee doesn’t have concerns over the way the Seminoles continue to perform this season.
Committee...

The first rankings for the inaugural College Football Playoff were released Tuesday night.
The sun still rose in the East, the sky is still blue and most college football fans feel their favorite school still doesn’t get the respect that it’s...

Everything’s gone to Hades in Hattiesburg, where the university Brett Favre made famous is stuck in the mud. Marshall handed Southern Mississippi its 20th consecutive defeat Saturday with a 61-13 win in Huntington, W.Va.
The losing streak is the...

The Maryland football team knew all about Marshall's gaudy statistics — the 43 points and 502.3 yards per-game averages engineered by prolific, elusive quarterback Rakeem Cato and his spread offense.
If they were going to win their first bowl game in...

The Big East officially introduced Memphis as a new member slated to join the league in all sports in 2013, while Conference USA and the Mountain West Conference are reportedly inching closer to a formal merger.
The Big East has poached four current...